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Lauren Pressley (BA in Communication, North Carolina State University, 2002; BA in Philosophy, North Carolina State University, 2003; MLIS, University of North Carolina – Greensboro, in progress) is the microtext assistant at Wake Forest University. She lives in downtown Winston-Salem, NC, but spends several evenings a week in Greensboro.

She’s been hanging out in libraries since she was a child. Her first library experience was with a kind librarian at Farmington Woods Elementary in Cary, NC. She volunteered with an energetic, red-convertible driving librarian at York Elementary, and in the public libraries of Wake County, NC. Her first student job in college was with the interlibrary loan department of D. H. Hill Library at North Carolina State University and her first full-time job was with the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University.

Now she spends her time learning as much as possible in her current position at WFU and in class at UNC-G.

Her developing interests involve information literacy and emerging technology in libraries. Of course, you see a lot of that here.

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Lauren for ALA Council

Many of you know that I am a supporter of ALA. Since first getting involved, I have found it to be a rewarding experience and have met many inspirational colleagues through the organization. I’ve also seen that there are things that need to change to align the organization with the expectations of people today. As [...]

More on Teaching Teaching

I just posted my first real post to the ALA Learning Blog. Here’s the first little bit:
As Paul pointed out, train the trainer programs are really useful but are not necessarily offered all that often. Since one of my most recent projects was one of these programs, I thought I’d kick off my posts on [...]

Notes on Plagiarism Tutorials

I’m about to get started on a new tutorial project, and wanted to get a lay of the land.  This one will be a lot different from the Toolkit, since the topic is plagiarism and can’t be covered in 2-3 minutes. And what better way to do that then to ask your Twitter friends what [...]

Looking forward to the TechSet!

Hi everyone! I’m excited to let you know that my book, Wikis for Libraries is due out next month! It’s part of a great collection of books, The Tech Set, edited by Ellyssa Kroski and published by Neal-Schuman (as a joint project with LITA).
This book is for those who have been thinking about implementing a [...]

Lifestreaming with Facebook, Friendfeed, and Google Buzz

What fun timing! I had scheduled an emerging tech talk (a regular talk I do at work on emerging technologies) for this morning, and then two days ago Google Buzz was announced!
That night I was using it on my cell phone, and yesterday morning it was integrated into my Gmail. After the long anticipated introduction [...]